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Railways, roads & transport, 1943

4,054 stories in Sydney's papers · page 14 of 203

School Railway Tickets

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 27 January 1943 · page 2

STATE schools reopen next Tuesday and the Commissioner for Railways (Mr. Hartigan) asks that all pupils who have made application for…

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School Railway Tickets

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 27 January 1943 · page 2

STATE schools reopen next Tuesday and the Commissioner for Railways (Mr. Hartigan) asks that all pupils who have made application for…

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School Railway Tickets

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 27 January 1943 · page 2

STATE schools reopen next Tuesday and the Commissioner for Railways (Mr. Hartigan) asks that all pupils who have made application for…

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Road Opening Fee

The Biz · Thursday 28 January 1943 · page 3

Fairfield Council has fixed a road opening fee of £3. to be lodged by contractors persons, companies, etc., in respect of any work involving the opening of any…

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Changes in Train Times

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 28 January 1943 · page 4

From Monday next the times of departure of several local and through trains on the Illawarra line and the WollongonB-Port Kembla and…

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Fatality at Closed Road

Nepean Times · Thursday 28 January 1943 · page 1

About 10.45 p.m. on Saturday Rex Austin Newell (17), a soldier, was riding a motor cycle in an easterly direction along the section of High Street,…

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The Road From Wyszkow Nazis Shoot Expelled Jews

The Hebrew Standard of Australasia · Thursday 28 January 1943 · page 7

An underground Polish paper (published and printed, as are a good many other Polish underground papers, in a ghetto), which reached London recently,…

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Women's News Services Train Together A.W.A.S. and A.A.M.W.S.

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 28 January 1943 · page 3

CANBERRA, Wednesday.—Emphasising the need for recruits for the Australian Women's Army Service and the Australian Army Medical…

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Motor Speed Limit to Conserve Vital Commodities

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 28 January 1943 · page 2

AN Australian-wide order limiting the speed of motor vehicles to 40-m.p.h. has been announced by the Commonwealth Land Transport Board…

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Motors & Motoring Producer Gas Notes

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 28 January 1943 · page 7

ALTHOUGH cleaning of a producer gas generator may be a messy operation, N.R.M.A. engineers advise that it be cleaned even more frequently than every…

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Railway Institute Social Club

Nepean Times · Thursday 28 January 1943 · page 3

The annual meeting of Penrith Railway Institute Social Club was held on 12th inst. The secretary (Mr W. Turnbull) in his report stated: I commend…

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Overseas Export Manifests West Australia Motor Vessel. Sailed Fremantle. Bunge (Aust.) Pty., Ltd.. Agents

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Thursday 28 January 1943 · page 3

Australian Wheat Board, 7657 tons bulk wheat, 7020 bags wheat (550 tons) MOTOR VESSEL…

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Protests by Railway Women

The Sun · Thursday 28 January 1943 · page 3

More than 150 women railway cleaners and porters held mass meetings of protest in Sydney today against what they…

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Call-up of Motor Mechanics Likely

Daily Mirror · Thursday 28 January 1943 · page 3

MORE motor mechanics are required by the Army. A further call on the staffs of garage workshops is likely to be made shortly…

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Call-up of Motor Mechanics Likely

Daily Mirror · Thursday 28 January 1943 · page 3

MORE motor mechanics are required by the Army. A further call on the staffs of garage workshops is likely to be made shortly…

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Call-up of Motor Mechanics Likely

Daily Mirror · Thursday 28 January 1943 · page 7

MORE motor mechanics are required by the Army. A further call on the staffs of garage workshops is likely to be made shortly…

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Taxi Burned on Bridge

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 29 January 1943 · page 5

A taxi-cab was damaged by fire on the southern approach of the Harbour Bridge early this morning. It was reported that the cab had been stolen…

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Correspondence. “The Profit Motive” “Yallambee,” Saunders Bay Road, Caringbah, January 25, 1943. The Editor

The Observer · Friday 29 January 1943 · page 5

Sir,—I wish to protest at the basic untruth of Sir Arthur Rickards article of January 22nd, in your paper, entitled “The Profit Motive.”…

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French Motor Ships Marechal Petain and Others

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Friday 29 January 1943 · page 2

Rather more information about French shipbuilding is now being received than for some time (states an English shipping paper). French naval architecture in the years preceding the war was an art of which France could be proud. There was a…

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Russian Armies Still Smashing Ahead Drive For Railways

Daily Mirror · Friday 29 January 1943 · page 1

LONDON, Friday. -- The Russians are still rolling the Germans back all the way from Leningrad to the Maikop oilfields in the Caucasus…

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